“This person who did the shooting in Newtown obviously had some serious problems and there should have been some way where he could not have had access to a gun. Had he gone to that school with any other weapon, even a knife, he could not have done the damage that was done,” Cirasuolo told WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau.

“We think that it’s time for educators to say enough is enough. We are in danger, the children are in danger – and not just in schools. This has happened in shopping malls and movie theaters and houses of worship,” Cirasuolo told Schneidau.

Cirasuolo noted that in these most recent shooting rampages, a mentally ill man used an automatic weapon to cause mass devastation, Schneidau reported.

According to police, 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle to kill 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook on Friday morning, before using one of two handguns he was carrying to take his own life as first responders closed in.